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someone post that cool animatin from one of the later movies that hermione tells, that was good
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hemale in pain posted:guns dont work in the magical world idiot!!! I mean they're walking around in london so their anti-technology aura probably doesn't reach that far. Shoot them from half a mile away and the only thing entering that zone is literally just a dumb piece of metal going fast
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Jun 14, 2016 14:58
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okay i will https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmEEDyeDv8
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Jun 14, 2016 14:59
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Wicker Man posted:Also, they make a big deal about needing to shout out spell names, but then you've got so many wizards doing magical things with their wands without having to say a word. yep thats just stupid. the electricity thing was the only obvious flaw that was explained in the first book as far as i remember
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Jun 14, 2016 15:16
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im gfoing to name my son bulbus
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Jun 14, 2016 15:41
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Lollerich posted:Nope. gently caress you. Stopped reading right there. That was in the epilogue of the last book.
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Jun 14, 2016 17:11
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I really liked Harry Potter but after all the stupid poo poo JK has done since I'm really not interested in reading anything else she wrote.
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Jun 14, 2016 17:27
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JediTalentAgent posted:The US would develop a lot of slang to deal with the poo poo they'd do the wizards/witches, too. holy gently caress. my sides. I want this to be real. just 2 cia dudes in lovely wizard robes, just working over a death eater in some blacksite. then they have the centaur on site sodomize him.
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Jun 14, 2016 18:33
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Mange Mite posted:I mean they're walking around in london so their anti-technology aura probably doesn't reach that far. Shoot them from half a mile away and the only thing entering that zone is literally just a dumb piece of metal going fast Well and they've been shown to have functional magic buses and things that are substantially mechanically more complex than a gun (and which also rely on electricity...) in close proximity to magic, so we can probably just chalk this up to effective UK gun control policies (which might have been propagated by wizards in the first place!) I'm the U.S. probably has literal gun wizardry
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Jun 14, 2016 18:53
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They should have put Harry's son into Hufflepuff and have that be a source of shame in the family. At least Slytherin and Ravenclaw have some cool stuff. Hufflepuff probably play the wizarding version of Magic the Gathering or Yugioh. Except for wizards, it's called 'Mundane' and it's all cards built around what they think are muggle fantasy. *Draws "Eye Beam" card. One of opponent's card is hypnotized by a wooden aquarium that shows a series of glowing green letters and numbers for next 3 turns.
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Jun 14, 2016 18:59
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a7m2 posted:oh that ones actually explained: magic fucks with electricity and machines that run on them. its retarded but thats what it says in the first book if i remember right (its been over ten years lol) Yeah but guns don't use electricity.
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Jun 14, 2016 19:51
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Nanomashoes posted:Yeah but guns don't use electricity. EXACTLY. LGD posted:Well and they've been shown to have functional magic buses and things that are substantially mechanically more complex than a gun (and which also rely on electricity...) in close proximity to magic, so we can probably just chalk this up to effective UK gun control policies (which might have been propagated by wizards in the first place!) Balooney. England definitely has some guns for hunting animals. Just send these hunters after Voldemort and the problem is solved. There's goddamn hunting lodges, and knowing how brits make pomp and ceremony out of everything, there's surely some upper class harry potter wizard who's a member of it. They can't all be Mr. Weasley's, fumbling with rubber ducks. I don't know why I'm caring so much about what will most likely turn out to be intentionally fake spoilers.
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Jun 14, 2016 20:04
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Wedemeyer posted:Balooney. England definitely has some guns for hunting animals. Just send these hunters after Voldemort and the problem is solved. There's goddamn hunting lodges, and knowing how brits make pomp and ceremony out of everything, there's surely some upper class harry potter wizard who's a member of it. They can't all be Mr. Weasley's, fumbling with rubber ducks. The other obvious flaw with that theory is that the people in question are members of an entirely secret parallel society who can magically teleport themselves long distances at apparently trivial cost and render themselves invisible/mind control people/etc. so even if the UK had eliminated every firearm/bullet on its shores there's nothing stopping Joe Warlock from taking a leisurely half-hour jaunt and coming back with a few crates of automatic rifles and ammunition. 
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Jun 14, 2016 20:10
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trap sprung, but the 'wizards' are so far removed and think of regular human society is so beneath them that they are supposed to not know jack about any regular human technology any more than a human is expected to know all about wizarding. What I'm saying is that you could probably press the gun against a wizard's head and he would never think of stopping you until it was too late
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Jun 14, 2016 20:13
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It's almost like Harry Potter is a poorly written kids book and its internal logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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Jun 14, 2016 20:19
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LGD posted:I'm the U.S. probably has literal gun wizardry Lee Harvey Oswald was a wizard
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Jun 14, 2016 20:19
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Zefiel posted:trap sprung, but the 'wizards' are so far removed and think of regular human society is so beneath them that they are supposed to not know jack about any regular human technology any more than a human is expected to know all about wizarding. What I'm saying is that you could probably press the gun against a wizard's head and he would never think of stopping you until it was too late  Which works for advanced technology like computers and smartphones and the like, but they clearly interact with muggles enough that they should have some idea of what a gun is, even if they don't know the first thing about how they function. And since guns have been the premier military technology for the past ~600 years or so, you'd think a wizard might have looked into them at some point. Especially given stuff like the 2nd World War, which they could not possibly have missed the effects of, no matter how removed from normal Muggle society they were. I mean the actual answer is that its a whimsical children's fantasy that very obviously does not hold together, nor does it need to, but if you're going to look at ways in which it fails to hold together this is a pretty prominent one
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Jun 14, 2016 20:22
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LGD posted:
dont forget the muggle born wizards that know about modern technology up until they turn 11 and get sent to secret wizard school
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Jun 14, 2016 20:26
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Nanomashoes posted:It's almost like Harry Potter is a poorly written kids book and its internal logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny. If Diane Duane can write a children's magic/fantasy novel that holds up through nearly 30 years of scrutiny and rereads, Rowling can too.  Get your poo poo together!!
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Jun 14, 2016 20:40
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Nanomashoes posted:It's almost like Harry Potter is a poorly written kids book and its internal logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny. only the first three or so are childrens books, then people start getting murdered constantly and half of each book is about ~teenage feelings~
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Jun 14, 2016 20:48
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Teenagers are kids.
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Jun 14, 2016 20:50
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Nanomashoes posted:It's almost like Harry Potter is a poorly written kids book and its internal logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I still believe.
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Jun 14, 2016 20:55
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The good wizards are too dumb to use guns and the bad wizards are too smug, this is canon The real reason is because it would be boring, you s, stories don't need layers of retarded justification about the ~realism~ in order to work
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Jun 14, 2016 21:10
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notZaar posted:I really liked Harry Potter but after all the stupid poo poo JK has done since I'm really not interested in reading anything else she wrote. her detective novels are pretty good
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Jun 14, 2016 21:23
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:The good wizards are too dumb to use guns and the bad wizards are too smug, this is canon I would actually be extremely interested in reading about wizard black-ops and the insane internal politics of the magical conspiracy that runs the world from behind the scenes, but yeah that ain't Harry Potter
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Jun 14, 2016 22:04
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They should've actually made that Harry Potter police procedural "the aurors" that was an April fools a while back and made a billion loving dollars
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Jun 14, 2016 23:18
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did hermoine cast a spell to turn herself black or does that just go unexplained.
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Jun 14, 2016 23:39
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And another thing. Wizards could alleviate a great deal of muggle suffering if they weren't causing itDrink Cheerwine posted:im gfoing to name my son bulbus He takes after his mom
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Jun 15, 2016 00:05
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Clipperton posted:her detective novels are pretty good Have any of those characters been made retroactively gay and/or black yet?
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Jun 15, 2016 13:25
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:The good wizards are too dumb to use guns and the bad wizards are too smug, this is canon "Wizards" was a funny animated movie.
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Jun 15, 2016 15:00
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Okay, forget guns. Why does nobody in harry potterland know how to throw a good punch? Use the expelliarmus spell and then go all schoolyard bully. What I'm saying is I want to see magical MMA.
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Jun 15, 2016 15:14
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rotinaj posted:Okay, forget guns. Why does nobody in harry potterland know how to throw a good punch? Use the expelliarmus spell and then go all schoolyard bully. widespread telegraphing of your attacks in the form of shouting spells makes wizards really bad at martial arts
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Jun 15, 2016 15:18
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Wedemeyer posted:If Diane Duane can write a children's magic/fantasy novel that holds up through nearly 30 years of scrutiny and rereads, Rowling can too. so u wanna be a wizzard is way cooler than harry potter and i forgot about that book series entirely
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Jun 15, 2016 15:28
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im the transdimentional alien that consists of three sentient spheres that just roll everywhere theres a character thats literally just a mug full of oil. like, from the ground.
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Jun 15, 2016 15:29
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rotinaj posted:Okay, forget guns. Why does nobody in harry potterland know how to throw a good punch? Use the expelliarmus spell and then go all schoolyard bully. Hermione punched Malfoy once. Little poo poo deserved it.
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Jun 15, 2016 16:16
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Mycroft Holmes posted:Hermione punched Malfoy once. Little poo poo deserved it. That was a hate crime now.
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Jun 15, 2016 16:19
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Mycroft Holmes posted:Hermione punched Malfoy once. Little poo poo deserved it. the white man just can't get a break
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Jun 15, 2016 19:15
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Dapper_Swindler posted:holy gently caress. my sides. I want this to be real. just 2 cia dudes in lovely wizard robes, just working over a death eater in some blacksite. then they have the centaur on site sodomize him. The US Wizard CIA looks like every evil group in a Jack Chick tract. They'll have the robes, but they'll still wear ties and sunglasses. They might also have some headgear that looks almost like a Klan hood, but not quite.
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Jun 15, 2016 19:22
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LGD posted:I'm the U.S. probably has literal gun wizardry would be cool af
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Jun 15, 2016 19:26
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American wizards have their wands mounted on gun grips. As you pull the trigger, it causes a tab to rap across a groove on the wand that creates a harmonic spell that discharges without words.
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Jun 15, 2016 19:36
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